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"Bea says that the art of reading is slowly dying, that it's an intimate ritual, that a book is a mirror that offers us only what we already carry inside us, that when we read, we do it with all our heart and mind, and great readers are becoming more scarce
by the day."

I used the special Oslo Convention Label that Poodlesister sent me a few weeks ago...THANKS AGAIN, Poodlesister!!! ; )

***OOOPS...be back shortly to post the book and it's link. I forgot to transfer the scanned photo I made of the label into the journal entry, and do the official release notes for the books I released to celebrate BC Day today.

HAVE A FABULOUS TIME EVERYONE!!! : D

EDITED to add book link, however...the site has been having a lot of difficulty during the past several hours. I am just now able to get back on, so while the Journal Entry is complete, I've not yet been able to make the official release notes. It's 3:30am here, and I've been going since 6am yesterday, so now I need a bit of sleep first. ; )

We do, we absolutely do, it's a brilliant convention! It's so good to meet old friends again, and to meet new people - and be able to connect faces with BCers I've known for years from the forums. The organisers are doing a terrific job!

We do, we absolutely do, it's a brilliant convention! It's so good to meet old friends again, and to meet new people - and be able to connect faces with BCers I've known for years from the forums. The organisers are doing a terrific job!

I have made a booking at the restaurant for 6 persons. We are 7 persons now, ApoloniaX, Cassiopaeia, rahar109, MLA (probably), Fiona, LeishaCamden (probably) and I. I will wait until after lunch to see if more people are joining, and send an updated booking to the restaurant.

We are interested (Ardik and me) and we can make it at 18:00. If this means we can meet with LeishaCamden at the same time, that's great and convenient!

I will be there ... but between arriving in the city after work (I work in another county, not the neighboring county to Oslo, but the next one after that! :-) and meeting you at the restaurant, I have to go to a friend's house to feed her pet turtle who is home alone. I really should have been there this weekend, but it was hard to find the time ... ;-) So I'm not 100% sure I will make it by 6 but even if I am a little late, I will be there. :-)

Finally I'm on my bus home! Arrived at the bus terminal around 10.50, and say down there and read a bit while waiting for the bus to leave at 11.40. But that bus didn't show up at all. No information on the screens or loudhailers about it.... So I ended up taking the next bus, that left at 12.40! The bus driver had spent several hours getting back to Hønefoss earlier in the morning, due to the snowfall and stucked cars/trailers (normally he should have used 1 hour 15 minutes).

I think we should have a round2 for the prize of the most unlucky bookcrossers. I bumped into Rochester74 and lamelemon who had been queueing for hours at the check-in desk only to find that their flight had been cancelled. They were queueing again for a hotel voucher.

Got rebooked on a morning flight and am now in a airport hotel. Met chawoso at the airport and her flight was still on. Lucky her, we have the same destination.Unfortunately lamelemon is booked to another hotel. So we cannot have our planned hotelbarmeetup.

Was the snowfall so heavy, that flights were cancelled ... In the city it didn't look like.

No, there wasn't any snow at the ground in the city as I could see. But I hadn't travelled that far on the bus before I saw snow on the ground. And at a part of the road where my bus drove, the traffic had stopped completely in the early morning due to cars/trailers that got into trouble. And I saw several cars and buses covered in snow, after being parked for a while. So I'm not surprised that there was trouble at the airport as well.

I think we should have a round2 for the prize of the most unlucky bookcrossers. I bumped into Rochester74 and lamelemon who had been queueing for hours at the check-in desk only to find that their flight had been cancelled. They were queueing again for a hotel voucher.

I think we should have a round2 for the prize of the most unlucky bookcrossers. I bumped into Rochester74 and lamelemon who had been queueing for hours at the check-in desk only to find that their flight had been cancelled. They were queueing again for a hotel voucher.

I agree

We'll do it!The three bookcrossers that already have received their prizes are out of the competition.Please nominate unlucky bookcrossers, and tell the story.

We will have up to three "winners" (if you can say so about having bad luck).

I will start with one nominee: Faizy. Due to a misunderstanding between MissMarkey and myself he was not shown the way to the Cin Cin Cafe, and did not get the Saturday night dinner as planed. He used the time to buy some souvenirs, but in my view that is a rather poor sustitute for a good reindeer pizza, and I think he is a very stong candidate for the most unlucky bookcrosser - part2.

Reading the storries, I think we have had far too many unlucky bookcrossers, feels bad! I hope there is some truth in the saying "common fait is common concolation", though:-) And in the saying "it could always be worse"... (keyword: volcano... as I do not want to start any award for the convention with the most unluck, I will not say more...)

I will allow for any further details to the storries until the end of today, and then sum up "The most unlucky bookcrosser - part2"-competion tomorrow.

Our flight this morning to Paris was cancelled, and now we are in Amsterdam waiting for another flight tout Bordeaux. Finally we'll get home today, but late in the evening.So I must take a half day off tomorrow morning, but no problem! Jemlire goes back to work only next week

However just half an hour after I wrote this I met Havelblume who had been waiting for a flight since yesterday. Now she was hoping to get a flight to Berlin at 6pm. Hopefully she made it and has finally arrived home by now.

whose flight was cancelled because of snow - they arranged her hotel for her overnight but she didn't get there till 2am so only managed a few hours' sleep before having to get up for the next plane home.

I don't qualify because I already was the 2nd-most unlucky, but when I got to the airport there was no sign of my flight on the board; in fact it had been rescheduled to around 11am, so I had to buy a new ticket for the evening flight, 4000 NOK, wait around in the airport for 5 hours, then the flight was late and I didn't get to Zurich till midnight and missed the last train to Lausanne, so had to book into a hotel for the night as I didn't fancy spending another 5 hours on a bench at the railway station. Thank goodness for credit cards.

I still think the worst thing is getting your duty-free goods confiscated by customs, how mean of them.

I don't qualify because I already was the 2nd-most unlucky, but when I got to the airport there was no sign of my flight on the board; in fact it had been rescheduled to around 11am, so I had to buy a new ticket for the evening flight, 4000 NOK, wait around in the airport for 5 hours, then the flight was late and I didn't get to Zurich till midnight and missed the last train to Lausanne, so had to book into a hotel for the night as I didn't fancy spending another 5 hours on a bench at the railway station. Thank goodness for credit cards.

My instructions were a bit inaccurate. You can not participate in both parts with the same unlucky incident, but your second unlucky incident qualifies you for the most unlucky bookcrosser - part2.

apparently had to wait 11 hours at Gardermoen airport because of the snow issues... I was a bit sad needing to leave already so early on Sunday, but now must say that I'm very very glad I didn't have to try leaving on Monday!!

apparently had to wait 11 hours at Gardermoen airport because of the snow issues... I was a bit sad needing to leave already so early on Sunday, but now must say that I'm very very glad I didn't have to try leaving on Monday!!

LOL! I don't know if you heard this during your stay here, but we have a saying in Norwegian which fits very well here - Aldri så galt at det ikke er godt for noe. It means "nothing is ever so bad that it isn't good for something". ;-)

apparently had to wait 11 hours at Gardermoen airport because of the snow issues... I was a bit sad needing to leave already so early on Sunday, but now must say that I'm very very glad I didn't have to try leaving on Monday!!

LOL! I don't know if you heard this during your stay here, but we have a saying in Norwegian which fits very well here - Aldri så galt at det ikke er godt for noe. It means "nothing is ever so bad that it isn't good for something". ;-)

Glad you made it home alright! :-)

We have the same saying in Finnish and yes, it fits myself perfectly in this case :D After reading these horror stories I'm almost embarrassed to say how smoothly everything went for me... My flight arrived even a few minutes ahead of schedule and I managed to catch a bus that I never in my wildest dreams thought possible to catch; scheduled arrival at Helsinki airport 19:50, bus to Turku leaves at 20:00 and believe it or not, I was on that bus! Travelling only with cabin luggage truly has its advantages!

On Monday morning I woke up at 6 am to get ready and go to the airport. I had I booked I flight to Athens via Zurich. As I had only hand luggage, I went strait for gates... to find out that the flight to Zurich was cancelled.

My cell phone is a very old one with no access to Internet and, as I had passed the security checkpoint, I could not go to an information desk. I texted my husband and asked him to contact the airline and give me some information but he was in a meeting at work and didn't see my sms. Then I texted Alexandra (alexotanil) and asked for help. She and my husband informed me that I was transferred in a flight to Frankfurt that was ready to part. I run, holding a suitcase without wheels, and managed to catch the plane. Due to the ice on the runway and the wings, we took off very late and, despite the fact that I run madly, I missed the flight to Athens and had to wait 5 hours for the next. I arrived home at about 11.30 pm.

I don't really think I deserved the prize for bad luck on the way to Oslo - especially after reading all those stories.... my many books weren't confiscated after all, I only got a funny story to tell. But my mother really likes the Norway book, I might have to leave it with her. And I had an uneventful journey to Germany, everything went smoothly, and even my luggage arrived. The snow has come along with me though, I don't like that at all... But in three days I'll be in the desert and will enjoy the wonderful reading area of Abu Dhabi airport :-)

... that the thread's title has been changed :-) Still not home. But soon.I'm waiting to board my plane to Abu Dhabi and visit the airport's lovely reading area... of course I've come prepared with books... one about Abu Dhabi that was given to me by Cassiopaeia, two from the convention's left-overs and three that my mother "donated" for this purpose. Hope to hear from them again soon.

I didn't realise that it could be this many unlucky bookcrossers when I introduced the unluky bookcrossers-part2, and selecting the 3 most unlucky was just to difficult. I have therefore instead put all 16 of you in the hat, and made a draw of 5 persons who get wings for one month. manuma, lamelemon, Cassiopaeia, Faizy and puskailves, one month of wings is on the way to you.

To all you unlucky ones, may good luck come your way!

PS: A little update on the weather in Oslo: On Saturday I walked The Harbour Promenade (Havnepromenaden). It stretches nine kilometres along Oslo's water front. The sun was out all day, temperatures well above 20 degrees, and when I came to Sørenga with its seawater pool, it was packed with people in sunbading and wearing their bikinis. Then today in Oslo, it has been snowing!

Thank you so much! To be honest, a lot of people had it way worse than I did - I actually enjoyed my extra night, nose stuck to the window watching the snow, warm bed, good book and handy reading light :)

I think we must all take turns...my unlucky experience happened in Dublin. I was pleased to help out one of the Dubliners that helped me in Dublin, whilst in Oslo, making sure she could enjoy her time there. I'm glad everyone got back in one piece and very much look forward to catching up with you all again soon...in Bordeaux or perhaps before in the UK. Thank you everyone that organised the convention for such lovely food, helpful and friendly people making a superb atmosphere I was sorry not to spend so much time catching up this time round as I only briefly got to talk to a few of you but chatterbox as I am I'll be sure to make up for it in the future! And another thing! - the Oslo trip has turned my cousin into a very enthusiastic bookcrosser who will be signing up her daughter soon too! Thank you for such a great trip everyone :0)